Storm History: Blue Earth County, Minnesota
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Blue Earth County, Minnesota: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.
The record
- Events
- 661
- Deaths
- 4
- Injuries
- 12
- Damage
- $39 million
- Episodes
- 417
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 185 | 2 | 12 | $32 million |
| Hail | 158 | 0 | 0 | $261,000 |
| Flash Flood | 80 | 0 | 0 | $3.9 million |
| Winter Storm | 63 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 35 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 34 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 10 | 0 | 0 | $2.3 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 2 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 15, 1998
- Tornado, July 14, 2003
- Tornado, June 14, 1981
- Tornado, June 14, 1976
- Tornado, August 18, 1980
- Flood, June 18, 2014
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 18, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2014
- Tornado, June 30, 1994
- Tornado, July 9, 2017
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2010
- Tornado, July 25, 1953
- Tornado, June 25, 2010
- Hail, August 19, 2016
- Lightning, September 2, 1996
- Tornado, July 17, 2015
- Tornado, April 29, 1991
- Tornado, August 7, 1994
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 29, 1998
- Tornado, June 17, 2010
- Tornado, June 14, 1981
- Tornado, July 1, 1997
- Tornado, June 13, 2001
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Tornado, June 14, 1976
- Tornado, July 25, 1953
- Tornado, August 18, 1980
- Tornado, June 23, 1981
- Tornado, June 13, 1983
- Tornado, August 7, 1994
- Tornado, July 27, 1995
- Tornado, May 1, 2001
- Tornado, July 14, 2003
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, April 13, 2026
- Blizzard, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 12, 2026
- Winter Weather, February 28, 2026
- Blizzard, February 18, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2026
- Blizzard, January 16, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2025
- Blizzard, December 18, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 6, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 25, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2025
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 18, 2025
- Tornado, June 16, 2025
- Hail, March 28, 2025
- Blizzard, March 4, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2024
- Tornado, August 5, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2024
- Hail, May 27, 2024
- Tornado, May 21, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 22, 2023
- Hail, July 27, 2023
- Hail, July 10, 2023
- Hail, June 24, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2023
- Ice Storm, January 2, 2023
- Blizzard, December 22, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2022
- Excessive Heat, August 2, 2022
- Hail, July 23, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 19, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2022
- Tornado, May 11, 2022
- High Wind, April 14, 2022
- Hail, April 12, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2022
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, September 17, 2021
- Hail, August 22, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 15, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2021
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Tornado, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2020
- Hail, June 2, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2020
- Blizzard, February 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Hail, September 24, 2019
- Tornado, August 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2019
- Tornado, August 13, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2019
- Hail, June 15, 2019
- Blizzard, April 10, 2019
- Flood, March 14, 2019
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2019
- Blizzard, February 7, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2018
- Tornado, September 20, 2018
- Funnel Cloud, May 30, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2017
- Tornado, July 19, 2017
- Tornado, July 9, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2017
- Hail, May 15, 2017
- Hail, May 8, 2017
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2017
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2017
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2016
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2016
- Hail, August 19, 2016
- Tornado, August 18, 2016
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2016
- Hail, July 13, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2016
- Tornado, June 14, 2016
- Hail, June 10, 2016
- Hail, May 25, 2016
- Blizzard, February 7, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2015
- Flash Flood, September 17, 2015
- Tornado, August 6, 2015
- Tornado, July 17, 2015
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
- High Wind, June 22, 2015
- Hail, June 3, 2015
- Hail, May 25, 2015
- Blizzard, January 8, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2014
- Hail, September 20, 2014
- Hail, August 18, 2014
- Flood, June 18, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2014
- Tornado, May 8, 2014
- Hail, May 7, 2014
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Blizzard, February 26, 2014
- Blizzard, February 20, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Blizzard, January 26, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Blizzard, January 22, 2014
- Blizzard, January 16, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 28, 2013
- Excessive Heat, August 25, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2013
- Tornado, June 20, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 22, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 9, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 21, 2013
- Hail, August 3, 2012
- Tornado, June 10, 2012
- Hail, May 24, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2011
- Hail, May 9, 2011
- Flood, March 20, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2010
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2010
- Winter Storm, November 12, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2010
- Hail, September 15, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2010
- Tornado, August 13, 2010
- Tornado, August 12, 2010
- Hail, July 23, 2010
- Tornado, July 17, 2010
- Funnel Cloud, July 5, 2010
- Tornado, June 26, 2010
- Tornado, June 25, 2010
- Tornado, June 17, 2010
- Hail, June 1, 2010
- Hail, April 12, 2010
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2010
- Blizzard, January 25, 2010
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Blizzard, December 8, 2009
- Winter Weather, October 12, 2009
- Hail, August 25, 2009
- Hail, August 2, 2009
- Hail, July 21, 2009
- Tornado, June 21, 2009
- Heavy Rain, May 6, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2009
- Blizzard, January 12, 2009
- Blizzard, December 20, 2008
- Blizzard, December 14, 2008
- High Wind, October 26, 2008
- Hail, July 31, 2008
- Tornado, July 17, 2008
- Tornado, July 11, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Dense Fog, November 19, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2007
- Hail, July 3, 2007
- Hail, June 20, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2007
- High Wind, May 6, 2007
- Hail, April 30, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2007
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2006
- Heavy Snow, November 9, 2006
- Hail, September 26, 2006
- Funnel Cloud, September 2, 2006
- Heat, July 30, 2006
- Hail, July 19, 2006
- Hail, June 24, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2006
- Hail, April 18, 2006
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2005
- Flash Flood, October 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 17, 2005
- Hail, August 3, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2005
- Tornado, June 29, 2005
- Hail, June 27, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2005
- Flood, May 12, 2005
- Winter Storm, March 18, 2005
- Blizzard, January 21, 2005
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2005
- High Wind, December 12, 2004
- Hail, July 20, 2004
- Tornado, June 11, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 8, 2004
- Hail, May 19, 2004
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Blue Earth CountyEvery warning in Blue Earth County since 1986Every county in Minnesota
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.